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...Life of Gladstone," by Justin McCarthy. Macmillan Co., New York. The task of writing the life of a man who is not yet dead requires the exercise of so much discretion, and can but be attended with such difficulty in the way of gathering biographical material, especially of the personal sort, that it is rarely successful. We can not well say that Mr. McCarthy's Life of Gladstone is pithy. But it can by no means be criticised as a book that will permit of much skipping. Mr. McCarthy is always interesting. And in this book he tells the simple...
...University of Pennsylvania, through Macmillan and Co. has just published a new quarterly Magazine entitled "The American Germanica...
...Life, Letters and Works of Louis Agassiz," by Jules Marcon, has just been received from the publishers, Macmillan and Co., New York. This is by all odds the best biography of Professor Agassiz, although since his death a great many books have been written about him. Mr. Marcon enjoyed an intimate friendship with the great naturalist for almost thirty years; in fact he is the last surviving member of the small band of European naturalists who came to this country with Agassiz. He is, therefore, thoroughly competent to treat the matter satisfactorily. The name of Professor Agassiz is immortal...
...volume of short stories by Henry James is shortly to be published by Macmillan and Co., under the name Embarrassments. The studies are entitled The Figure in the Carpet, Glasses, The Next Time, and The Way It Came, and are sketched in Mr. James's usual minute and clever manner...
...Macmillan and Co. have made arrangements for the issue in New York and London of a "Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology" under the editorial supervision of Professor Baldwin of Princeton University. The work is to have the following general features...